Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1887-01-21

shalt pitch Il within and without with
| pitch
Is. And this is the fashion which thou
shalt make II Of : The length Of the ark
| shall be 600 c4bits, the breadth Of 1t so
cubits, and the height Of it 80 cubits.
is. A window shalt thou make to the
ark. and in cubit shalt thou finish il
above; and the door of the ark shalt
thou set ia the side thereof; with lower.
second, and third stories shalt thou
make ii.
II. And, behold, I. even !, do bring
a food of waters upon the earth, to de-
stroy all flesh. wherein IS the breath Of
life, from under heaven; and everything
that is in the earth shall die.
is. But with thee will establish my
covenant; and thou shalt come into the
ark. thou and thy sons, and thy wife,
and thy sons wives with thee.
Io, And of every living thing of all
flesh two Of every sort shalt thou bring
into the ark. to keep them alive with
thee; they shall be male and female.
40 Of fowls after their kind, and cat
tie after their kind. of every creeping
thing Of the earth after his kind; two of
every sort shall come unto thee. to keep
them alive.
III. And take thou unto thee of all
food that is eaten. and thou shalt gath
er it unto thee and it shall be for food
for thee, and for them.
a.. Thus did Noah according to all
that God commanded him, so did he.
ILLUSTRATIVE APPLICATIONS.
Noah walked with God ". o. Not be-
cause God would have no other man
than Noah to walk with him. but be-
cause Noah preferred to walk in Gods
way, while all other men preferred
to walk in their own way, does the
record stand that Noah walked with
God. God welcomes every one of his
human family to his holy companion
ship but he gives to every one of these
the privilege of walking with God or Of
walking apart from God. In order to
walk with God, Noah had to choose an
other way than the way Of his fellow
men. He must be all by himself in his
conduct and in his course. 1t required
courage, it required independence of
character. it required faith to walk with
God, when no one else on earth was 90
ing in that direction. Yet Noah was
the gamer above all his fellows And
no man was ever the loser through
walking with God. Yet it is not SO easy
to walk with God, when all one S fellows
are walking in the opposite direction,
and insisting that theirs is the way to
walk.
The earth was corrupt before God; for
all flesh had corrupted his way upon the
earth(vs. III, I7.) This world is not as
good now as thought to be but it is
great deal better than it was in Noah's
day. Yet then was the good old time
about which SO many people are prating.
as ifthe world had grown steadily worse
under the influence Of all these later
centuries of Christian teaching. The
people who lived in Noah's day might
well have pointed to the long ago as the
golden age of the world; but, since the
flood. there has been no time when the
world was better than it is to day. Vet
mankind as mankind has not changed
from that day to this. Left to itself all
flesh corrupts its way upon the earth.
Only as men heed the call TO walk With
God by faith. do they walk ina way that
is not corrupted. and that is not the way
of death. And it is because of Gods re-
siraining grace that more men ever be-
tore are walking with God in this new
year.of grace. 1887
God said unto Noah. the end of all
flesh IS come before me for the earth
Is filed with violence through them
". I3) He who wakes with God has
nothing to fear from the power of God
or from the judgments of God. Beng
at one with God he is sharer Of ali
that promotes the glory of God. But
he who chooses the way of evil, enters
upon a campaign against God. Unless
he can overthrow God, he must be over
thrown Of God: for God and evil are in
necessary and inevitable conflict Ii is